Mr. H Reads!

The following is more of a rant than a review. It is specifically for people who have read ORPHAN ISLAND by Laurel Snyder... and it contai...

That is my summer reading pile. Ambitious, I know. I totaled up the pages in that stack of books and we're just over 4,000. If I star...

What is it about? PRINCESS CORA AND THE CROCODILE, written by Laura Amy Schlitz and illustrated by Brian Floca, is about a princess w...

ME AND MARVIN GARDENS by Amy Sarig King is about an environmentally conscious boy named Obe Devlin. Obe's obsession with taking care o...

What is it about? SHORT by Holly Goldberg Sloan is about a middle school student (who is short for her age), discovering the confidence ...

I recently became caught up on SLJ's Battle of the Kids Books and really liked Mexican-American author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh...

It is generally difficult to explain to others my motivation for reading all the Newbery Medal winners. It is especially difficult to expl...